Man sleeps with dead wife, refuses to bury her

AS the world celebrates women's day, a Vietnam man who due to his great love for his dead wife has stolen headlines the world over after admitting to sleeping beside the bones of his dead wife for seven years despite pressure from authorities to bury her.


IS IT LOVE OR SOMETHING?... Le Van with the remains of his wife

Father of seven Le Van said he dug up the bones of his dead wife in 2005, a year after she died, and has slept beside them ever since, online news site VietnamNet reported.

The case has sparked widespread media coverage, prompting local authorities to urge Van, 57, to bury the corpse. There are no laws banning him from keeping his wife’s remains at home, but officials said the bones were polluting the environment.

Van refused to comply. The picture shown above is of Van posing outside in his bedroom with the life-size casket in which his wife’s bones are. The painted coffin, made of gypsum and clay, is modelled in the shape of a woman and dressed in women’s clothes.